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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 41, 8 February 1884, Page 17

Mr. John Harborow, Manse St., DuneiAn, is a specialist in shirtcutting. Gentlemen desirous of securing comfort in the wear of the very indispensable articles in question will find all their wants supplied on application to the establishment in question. The City IJoot Palace, George street, Dunedin, should be visited by all persons who are in need of good durable boots and shoes. The excellent stock is now selling off at a great reduction. " Mr. G. Clarke, Rattray street, Dunedin, may be consulted with advantage as to all repairs of clocks and watches. His selection of jewellery also will be found particularly choice. A correspondent of the American Canoeist gives an interesting account of an ancient Irish canoe which he saw at Lavey Strand o i the road from Cavan to Dublin. It was a dug-out, forty feet long,, four feet three inches across at the widest part, and made from an oak tree which must have been at least seven and a-half feet in diameter at the butt. There are no such oaks in that vicinity now. The lake on which it was used was only 200 acres in extent and contained two artificial islands built on piles and supported by framework of enormous dimensions. Celtic swords, hatchets, etc., of brass were found on the framework of the islands,